He is a former Big-4 Senior Manager responsible for a variety of assignments including: intangible business valuation, intellectual property valuation, financial modeling, valuation of equity participating instruments and other exotic financial assets/liabilities with almost 20 years’ experience. Howard has an MBA from Rutgers Business School with a concentration in Quantitative Finance

RYAN MEDLIN

Ryan Medlin is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist.
His most recent exit was the sale of his proximity tracking and measurement company Datasnap.io in 2015 to Neustar where he then led a team of engineers to build out Neustar's IoT Identity initiatives. This included a product for IoT which was an improvement over normal PKI providing cryptography based policy enforcement and Identity Management in a highly decentralized architecture.
As part of this responsibility for the past 2 years, many Blockchain and DLT based prototypes and concepts were given a lot of resources for prototype assessments. Platforms and protocols included: IoTA, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Rootstock, Lisk, NEO and many lower level protocols including things such as Telehash and Cothority.